Re: [Caml-list] Some comments on recent discussions

[Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>]

On 12/07/2011 12:18 PM, Gabriel Scherer wrote:

>> The French book "Le langage Caml" is very great, althought it is quite old,
>> and althought examples used in the book (write a pascal compiler, a grep
>> tool and so on) is maybe too theoristic for engineer target.
>> Maybe a translation would be sufficient ?
> 
> I have contacted Xavier Leroy and Pierre Weis a few years ago to get
> the TeX sources of the book. I didn't intend to translate from French
> to English, but only, for a start, from Caml Light to Objective Caml.
> Neither of them could find the sources

There must have been a misunderstanding: I have the full LaTeX
sources, of course.  What may have been lost is Pierre's first cut at
an OCaml version of the book.

Alan Schmitt adds:

> Yes, it's a great start to write a course on Caml. (I realize that
> the online version is the second edition, yet it is shorter than the
> paper version I have here. Either some chapters were removed in the
> 2nd edition or they are not available online.)

No, no, the online edition is identical to the 2nd edition, which has
one additional chapter.  It's just that pages are wider and taller
than those of the 1st edition, resulting in fewer pages overall.

David Mentré adds:

> Unfortunately, it is available under a non Free license (Non
> Commercial clause of CC-BY-NC-SA licence), this is a show stopper for
> me. I would like such a book to be included in Debian or other Free
> Software distributions.

I stand very firmly by the NC license.  If anyone wants to make money
out of this book or a derived work, the original authors and all the
future contributors should get their share, Debian orthodoxy
notwithstanding.

- Xavier Leroy